Piia Pauliina
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    October 22nd, 2009

    I picked up some old post from my old house today, and there was a letter from the Royal Marsden after my third cycle of chemo.  It talked about the results of my PET scans: “The results of the PET CT scan prior to the 3rd cycle showed a favourable response to treatment by both PET and CT criteria with however persisting active disease with residual mediastinal mass and small volume supraclavicular, sub pectoral and hilar adenopathy.”  Adenopathy means ‘the abnormal enlargement of lymph nodes’, and mediastinal refers to the area in my chest where the mass is.

    I liked the bit ‘favourable response’, but I did not like the sound of ‘persisting active disease’… Does it mean the cancer is still active?  I suppose it is, until it has completely been zapped?

  • scissors
    October 22nd, 2009

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  • scissors
    October 22nd, 2009

    I am so gutted.  I just had a text from my lovely friend Julie who is touring with Franz Ferdinand to say she has got a spare ticket to see them this Saturday.  I had to say no.  Because, I’m not feeling that great, and if I do anything extra fun nowadays, I end up ill, and possibly in a hospital with IV antibiotics.  I may sound a bit pessimistic, but I am sorry that is exactly what has been happening lately.

    Also, I had promised to go out to our local pub with Suzie on Saturday, and I want to go out with her.  It has been absolutely ages since we have been out together!  We used to go out at least once a week.  I do not even think, I have been in a pub just with Suzie since the beginning of this year!!??  The local pub is close by, and I can go home when I want to, or when I start feeling tired.  I am like a 100-year-old lady!  Maybe I should just give in, and become a full time hermit.

    My little sister and her boyfriend are coming to visit me in less than a week’s time!  I better not be ill then. I hope they do not mind hanging out with a ‘granny’.